Re: XFS Recovery

[Mark <musicman529@yahoo.com>]

--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> wrote:
> >> XFS mounting filesystem md5
> >> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: md5 (logdev:
> /dev/md0)
> >> Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: md5 (logdev:
> /dev/md0)
> > 
> > That's normal output when mounting an XFS
> filesystem - if
> > you see more than this then there might be problems...
> > 
> Hmmm....I don't know if I would describe that as
> "normal"
> unless I am misunderstanding Dave here.
> There has been some recovery happening indicating that
> there
> wasn't a clean unmount (it didn't find an unmount
> record in the log).
> But recovery should have replayed the
> outstanding metadata to a time point in the near past
> and so no repair should be necessary (we have qa tests
> which do the
> test anyway and check that there are no complaints).

Maybe not "normal," but at least "acceptable"?

If it's a regular occurrence, it might be worth looking into.
If it was a one-off, with no further complaints, I'd ignore it.

-- 
Mark

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